.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 253 118
Rank change year-on-year -61 -135 +31
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 396 473 1,827
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.24% 2.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.59% 5.63% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 361 390 1,750
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,081 8,400 16,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.66% 22.04% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,390 5,983 13,611
10th Percentile £36,700 £39,000 £36,300
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -53 112 £55,000 +8.08% 46
London -41 92 £80,000 - 65
North West -21 64 £55,000 - 23
South East -48 63 £60,000 +14.29% 63
Midlands -21 59 £65,000 +23.81% 30
East Midlands -20 45 £65,000 +23.81% 18
South West -13 38 £55,000 -24.14% 19
Yorkshire -52 25 £40,000 -20.00% 14
East of England -19 24 £83,750 +67.50% 29
North East -9 23 £60,000 +33.33% 10
West Midlands -27 14 £60,000 +4.35% 12
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.02%) IIS
2 6 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Kentico
4 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 232 (58.59%) Azure
2 87 (21.97%) AWS
3 63 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (12.37%) Serverless
5 40 (10.10%) SaaS
6 35 (8.84%) GitHub
7 28 (7.07%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 22 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (5.30%) Azure Functions
10 17 (4.29%) Azure AKS
11 15 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (3.54%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.54%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.28%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.26%) Internet
2 2 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.25%) AMQP
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.25%) Modbus
3 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (38.64%) SQL Server
2 46 (11.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 36 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 32 (8.08%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (6.06%) Power BI
6 16 (4.04%) MySQL
7 14 (3.54%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.28%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.01%) Redis
11 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (13.13%) Git
2 9 (2.27%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.01%) JIRA
5 3 (0.76%) NUnit
5 3 (0.76%) Vite
5 3 (0.76%) webpack
6 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.51%) MSTest
7 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
7 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (13.13%) Finance
2 42 (10.61%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.29%) Law
4 15 (3.79%) Games
5 13 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.27%) Banking
7 9 (2.27%) Front Office
8 6 (1.52%) Marketing
9 5 (1.26%) Advertising
10 4 (1.01%) Retail
11 3 (0.76%) Automotive
11 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.76%) Legal
11 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.51%) Local Government
12 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 274 (69.19%) Developer
2 133 (33.59%) .NET Developer
3 109 (27.53%) Senior
4 87 (21.97%) Software Developer
5 70 (17.68%) C# Developer
6 65 (16.41%) Senior Developer
7 52 (13.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 51 (12.88%) Software Engineer
9 50 (12.63%) Lead
10 40 (10.10%) C# .NET Developer
11 28 (7.07%) .NET Software Engineer
12 27 (6.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 26 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (6.31%) Lead Developer
14 25 (6.31%) Senior Software Developer
15 23 (5.81%) React Developer
16 22 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (5.30%) Applications Developer
18 19 (4.80%) Senior .NET Developer
19 18 (4.55%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 396 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (33.59%) ASP.NET
3 100 (25.25%) React
4 86 (21.72%) .NET Framework
5 60 (15.15%) RESTful
6 55 (13.89%) AngularJS
6 55 (13.89%) HTML
7 54 (13.64%) Blazor
7 54 (13.64%) CSS
8 53 (13.38%) ASP.NET Core
8 53 (13.38%) Entity Framework
9 36 (9.09%) Vue
10 32 (8.08%) Node.js
10 32 (8.08%) REST
11 30 (7.58%) ASP.NET MVC
11 30 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
12 15 (3.79%) HTML5
13 14 (3.54%) Dapper ORM
14 13 (3.28%) AWS CDK
15 12 (3.03%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.02%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.02%) Sports Betting
8 6 (1.52%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.01%) Digital TV
10 4 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.01%) Social Network
10 4 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.78%) VMS
2 6 (1.52%) Windows
3 5 (1.26%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (35.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 135 (34.09%) Agile
3 113 (28.54%) CI/CD
3 113 (28.54%) Software Engineering
4 98 (24.75%) DevOps
5 89 (22.47%) Microservices
6 68 (17.17%) MVC
7 64 (16.16%) Containerisation
8 57 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (12.88%) SDLC
10 44 (11.11%) Clean Code
11 39 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (9.60%) OO
13 36 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
14 34 (8.59%) Mentoring
15 31 (7.83%) AI
15 31 (7.83%) Analytics
16 30 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (7.07%) Collaborative Working
18 27 (6.82%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 345 (87.12%) C#
2 163 (41.16%) SQL
3 114 (28.79%) JavaScript
4 54 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 24 (6.06%) Python
6 11 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.27%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.52%) Bash
8 6 (1.52%) Rust
9 5 (1.26%) Java
10 4 (1.01%) Bicep
11 3 (0.76%) Erlang
11 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.51%) C++
12 2 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (7.83%) Degree
2 14 (3.54%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.26%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.54%) QA
2 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.51%) GDPR
2 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.51%) ITGC
2 2 (0.51%) SLA
2 2 (0.51%) WCAG
3 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.08%) Terraform
3 2 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 117 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.52%) Google
3 5 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (1.01%) Adobe
4 4 (1.01%) Facebook
5 2 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.51%) Databricks
5 2 (0.51%) Foundry
5 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.51%) YouTube
6 1 (0.25%) IBM
6 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle
6 1 (0.25%) WooCommerce